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Fight of the cases of Small-pox occurred in children who had not been vaccinated. Two children, aged respectively seven and eight years, had each a second
attack of Small-pox, one of whom had been previously vaccinated. Twenty-three cases of Fever are recorded by Mr Blackwell as having been removed to the
Workhouse from Flower and Dean-street, during the last quarter; ten of which were from No. 32 (a common lodging-house) in that street. The common lodging-
houses, particularly in the district of Spitalnelds. have furnished a very large proportion of the Fever cases Fever has also prevailed extensively in certain localitiesthus,
ten cases occurred in Princes-street, eleven in Wagoners buildings, twelve in Halifax-street, five in Garden-place, &c., Typhus Fever appears to have prevailed far
more extensively than Typhoid during the last six months;—the first cases occurred in persons out of employment and suffering from the effects of destitution
Destitution however alone will probably not engender Typhus Fever; an "atmospheric constitution" spoken of by Sydenham, must be added but about the nature of
Which we still remain in ignoranc. When this atmospheric constitution is presen, then it is found that those agents which depress the mind and debilitate the body render the individual suspect of the fcbrile poison.
* only forty-seven out seventy-six out seventy-six cases recorded bu Mr. Blackwell, are entered in his Medical Return Book The other cases being immediately sent into the
Workhouse, are entered in a separate book.